Last Name 1

Student’s Name

Professor’s Name

Course Number

Date

MIND MAP: Problems

Lack of
Technical
physical
issues
interaction

Online
Classes

Educational
Problems for Fear of poor
higher Grades
education
Managing Students
finances
Lack of
Organization
Stress

Future
prospects
not bright
Disrupted
Sleeping Competition
pattern
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MIND MAP: Solutions

Consider
online
classes as
real time

Coping
with
remote
learning

Solutions Reach out to

to the family

problems
Staying
organized
Coping
Fix the with Stress
sleeping
pattern
Talk to
friends

Get
professional
help
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Introduction and Thesis

           The Covid-19 pandemic has harmed all forms of education. Higher education has been

affected the most because various countries were forced to shut down their campuses leaving the

students with no other option other than taking the classes online without any in-person or

practical demonstrations that were necessary for fields like Medicine and Engineering. This

caused disruptions in the lives of the students as they were forced to switch online completely.

Staying at home or hostel while studying was a new way of life that the students had to adapt

making it difficult to stay organized and keep up with the classes and assignments.

           Recently, some higher education institutes in the US have announced that they will be

opening the campuses shortly. This move has been welcomed wholeheartedly by the students but

the pandemic has shaken the economic landscape as a whole. The students who were supposed to

graduate during the time of the pandemic will face hardship in finding jobs related to their fields

on Merit. This is the reason why higher education students have increased stress levels. The

competition they face is now much higher than in the non-pandemic times.

           The international students were also severely affected as their legal status was revised

after the policies of the host countries were changed. This forced the Universities around the

world to digitize and transform their working environments to engage in remote learning so that

international students could gain access to lectures and educational materials online. The

problem with remote learning is that it cannot be used to teach courses that require a hands-on

approach or practical experience like using machinery for engineering classes or interacting with

the human body in the case of the medical field.

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Possible Rebuttal:

           Some people do argue that remote learning has more advantages than disadvantages. This

is true for students belonging to junior level or high school. The University students who were

undergoing professional education could not switch entirely to remote learning. The only way

forward for them is to wait for the pandemic situation to end and come back when classes

resume.

Conclusion:

           It can be inferred that the students seeking professional education have been most badly

affected by the pandemic primarily because distant learning cannot help them comprehensively.

Due to lack of physical interaction with the learning apparatus and inability to participate in

practical experiments, there is little for them to learn in the online classes. The sudden arrival of

the pandemic has delayed the learning process of millions of higher education students around

the world. Universities around the world have announced reopening. Higher education students

will need to be patient and get all the support that they can from their families and each other to

cope with the stress induced by the economic downturn brought by the pandemic